The Platform Timeline
Chronos maintains the canonical timeline of the Liana Banyan Platform — not as a marketing document, but as an empirical record. Every entry is time-anchored and carries an Eyewitness agreement score.
Era Overview
| Era | Period | Canonical Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Foundation | 1989–2010 | Core cooperative design principles established |
| Architecture | 2011–2020 | System architecture, legal structure, cooperative economics |
| Build | 2021–2025 | Technical implementation, patent filing, platform construction |
| Launch | 2026 | Public cooperative launch, Red Carpet, Member onboarding |
Rope of History — Knots at Events
The platform’s history is best visualized as a rope along which knots are tied at each substrate event: every Pheromone fired, every Eblet minted, every canon ratified, every innovation moment captured. Knot spacing reflects innovation density — sparse for steady incremental work, tight clusters for high-density sessions where a single prompt thought cascades into many components. See the Rope of History page for the BP053→BP058 arc knot cluster.
Canonical Milestones (High-Confidence)
BP053→BP058 Arc · Sound Barrier and Beyond (2026-05-22 → 2026-05-26)
2026-05-26 — BP058 W15 BLACK MAMBA candidate
- W6 18-min wave · W6.5 chart-modal · W7 Pawn inventory · W11-E charts
- WHOMPER 44-min · 128 files
- ESCAPE VELOCITY 90-min · 250+ deliverables · 90 honest composite
- 4 BLOOD-class half-dreaming anchors (People-Are-Substrate · Smart/Poor + Modern Musketeers · 3 NEW Programs · Caithedral lean)
- 5 Speckle-class canonical primitives (Speckle · Hex-Soccerball · Peanut-Roll · Mass-Crystal · AI Tuner)
- Computation-knowledge separation doctrine locked
- Eyewitness score: in-flight ✅
2026-05-25 — BP057 W5b/W5c · Prov 20 v2 USPTO Filed
- W5a single-thread ceiling discovery (ceiling-is-data-not-failure pedagogy)
- W5b RETRY GOLD multi-channel · cooperative-class fix
- W5c Path A 4-Knight concurrent
- Prov 20 v2 USPTO Application 64/073,890 FILED 2026-05-25 05:33 ET
- 60% Cursor spend reduction empirical · 95% throttling-class claim
- “Cooperative-Class Substrate Is the Real Economics” article title locked
- 3,840 SAGA W5 GOLD geometric target (60·120·240·960·3840)
- Eyewitness score: 0.95+ ✅
2026-05-24 — BP056B Wrasse-Quartermaster Birth · Caithedral Core Rename
- Wrasse-Quartermaster substrate primitive born · Layer A.1 SHIPPED
- Pearl Prerogative coinage (Founder direct: emit Pearls not full Eblet quotes)
- Caithedral Core canonical rename (formerly CAI Core)
- 960-Goliath W4 launch · sub-mark Broadcast Scheduler
- E&A (Extract and Asteroid-Proof Vault) terminology supersedes E&V
- BOM-before-shebang Node ESM gotcha · gadget-first discipline RECURRENCE-FLAGGED
- Eyewitness score: 0.93 ✅
2026-05-23 — BP055 W3/W4 960-Goliath · Sound Barrier Crossed
- W3 + W4 960-Goliath wave · sub-mark Broadcast Scheduler
- Founder direct: “I think I broke the Sound Barrier”
- 1067× wall-clock compression empirical
- Stratospheric Benchmark dashboard LIVE on cephas-hugo download
- Knight Banyan Metric™ 87/100
- Eyewitness score: 0.94 ✅
2026-05-22 — BP054 Employ-the-World Canon · Cold Start Kaleidoscope
- BP044-class Business Proposals · Employ-the-World canon (Members retain 100% IP · LB Cost+20% · Researcher tiers · Ox’s Share)
- Cold Start kaleidoscope merry-go-round (12 Bounty classes)
- Marion Barry Market discovery (4 Crown candidates · canonical first-Phoebe-save)
- Local Civic Eblet Project (Lewistown MT first locality)
- 5 Founder LoC academic papers submission-ready
- Library-of-Congress 10K-node pitch · “Proof to the People”
- Eyewitness score: 0.93 ✅
2026-05-22 — BP053 Eyewitness Benchmark · Stratospheric Class · Sound Barrier First Crossing
- 935 replicates · 8 models · Haiku-Opus 0.883 “almost perfect agreement”
- Cathedral-runs-on-Haiku empirical receipt
- Stratospheric class (first crossing of the Sound Barrier)
- Eyewitness Benchmark canonical
- Fix-as-we-go meta-immutable (BP053)
- Eyewitness score: 0.96 ✅
Earlier Canonical Milestones
2026-05-25 — Patent Session BP056B
- Provisional application 20 filed (App #64/073,890)
- Total: 21 provisional applications filed
- Formal claims: ~2,473 across 21 provisionals
- Prov 21 filed (updated BP073 2026-06-04)
2026-05-11 — Patent Session BP036
- Provisional applications 18 + 19 filed
- Total: 19 provisional applications filed
- Formal claims: ~2,506 across 17 provisionals (18+19 pending counsel audit)
- Eyewitness score: 0.95+ ✅
2026-05-07 — Patent Session BP035
- Provisional applications 16 + 17 filed
- R-CONTEXT-UPSTREAM Trinity Rule bound (QUINDECIM #13)
- R-SEARCH-EXHAUSTIVE Trinity Rule bound (QUINDECIM #14)
- Eyewitness score: 0.95+ ✅
2026-04-20 — AGENTS.md B111
- Universal Agent Instructions issued
- Applies to all AI agents in workspace
- Founder-ratified
- Eyewitness score: 1.0 ✅ (canonical document)
2026-04-23 — K461/B121
- KNIGHT_QUEUE.md Phase 2 LIVE
- Cathedral-derived rendering activated
- Eyewitness score: 0.92 ✅
Query the Full Timeline
Use the Chronos query interface to explore the full timeline:
GET /chronos/timeline?from=1989-01-01&to=2026-05-25&confidence=high
Or browse by initiative:
GET /chronos/timeline?initiative=VSL&confidence=all
Contributing to the Timeline
Members who discover historical artifacts — documents, dates, decisions — not yet in the substrate may submit them for Chronos ingest.
Requirements for a valid contribution:
- Canonical reference (or create one)
- Timestamp (exact or estimated, clearly labeled)
- Source (where the artifact comes from)
- Two Member witnesses (or one CANON document reference)
Accepted contributions earn Marks and a substrate receipt.
The Liana Banyan Platform has a 37-year history. Chronos is where you can verify it.